Setting the people up to die: A
conspiracy of silence about swine flu natural remedies
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 by: Mike Adams, the Health Ranger,
NaturalNews Editor(NaturalNews) It's emblazoned across the front page
of USA Today, just underneath a subhead declaring Michael Jackson
was, indeed, killed by a drug overdose: "Flu could infect half of USA."
The article goes on to describe the predicted number of deaths expected
in the U.S. (30,000 - 90,000 Americans) as well as the actions being
taken by the government to protect Americans from the coming swine flu
pandemic.
That advice reads sort of like a comic book of health care advice for
kindergarteners: Wash your hands, cover your mouth if you cough and let
"the grownups" take care of the rest by injecting you with a vaccine.
Curiously absent from all the
health advice being
handed out on the
swine flu by the White House, the
CDC, the WHO and even
the FDA is any mention of
Vitamin D or
other natural remedies that offer enormous protections from influenza
infections.
The absence of this information from virtually all the advice being
handed out to the American public is increasingly suspicious. If a
pandemic flu is,
indeed, threatening to infect half the U.S. population, and if most of
the population is deficient in a nutrient known to strongly prevent
influenza
infections, wouldn't it make good sense to make a few announcements
encouraging Americans to raise their vitamin D levels throughout the
coming winter?
It is a well-known medical fact, of course, that influenza always gets
worse during the winter months North of the equator and the summer
months South of the equator (which are really called their "winter"
months). This is because as sunlight hours lessen during the winter, the
people living there become vitamin D deficient and are susceptible to
influenza infections of all kinds.
The information resources backing this are easy to find. Even our own
NaturalPedia.com website reveals a large amount of information on
natural defenses against influenza (http://www.naturalpedia.com/influen...).
NaturalNews.com, of course, offers a wealth of articles on Vitamin D (http://www.naturalnews.com/vitamin_...).
In the realm of peer-reviewed medical literature, searching
Google Scholar for
"influenza" and "vitamin D" returns tens of thousands of results (http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q...).
In particular, one study appearing in these search results is entitled
Epidemic influenza and vitamin D. It was published in 2006 in the
journal Epidemiology and Infection (2006, 134:6:1129-1140
Cambridge University Press) and its abstract reads as follows:
In 1981, R. Edgar Hope-Simpson proposed that a 'seasonal stimulus'
intimately associated with
solar
radiation explained the remarkable seasonality of epidemic
influenza. Solar radiation triggers robust seasonal vitamin D production
in the skin; vitamin D deficiency is common in the winter, and activated
vitamin D, 1,25(OH)2D, a steroid hormone, has profound effects on human
immunity. 1,25(OH)2D acts as an immune system modulator, preventing
excessive expression of inflammatory cytokines and increasing the
'oxidative burst' potential of macrophages. Perhaps most importantly, it
dramatically stimulates the expression of potent anti-microbial
peptides, which exist in neutrophils, monocytes, natural killer cells,
and in epithelial cells lining the respiratory tract where they play a
major role in protecting the lung from infection. Volunteers inoculated
with live attenuated influenza virus are more likely to develop fever
and serological evidence of an immune response in the winter. Vitamin D
deficiency predisposes children to respiratory infections. Ultraviolet
radiation (either from artificial sources or from sunlight) reduces the
incidence of viral respiratory infections, as does cod liver oil (which
contains vitamin D). An interventional study showed that vitamin D
reduces the incidence of respiratory infections in children. We conclude
that vitamin D, or lack of it, may be Hope-Simpson's 'seasonal
stimulus'.
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